Rory answered International Development Questions in the House of Commons on 11 January 2017 in his capacity as Minister of State at the Department of International Development. Simon Danczuk: What assessment she has made of the implications of demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 2015-16 for her Department’s policies in that region. Rory: The […]
Rory: I want to say a great thank you to all the hon. and right hon. Members who have taken part in the debate. I particularly praise the tone set by the hon. Member for Edinburgh East (Tommy Sheppard) and the way in which he picked up on the good atmosphere in the Chamber. I […]
I begin by paying huge tribute to the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz). For as long as I have been in the House and long before I entered the House, he has been a great champion of the interests of Yemen. He understands Yemen, as he pointed out, from his early childhood […]
The Minister of State responsible for fisheries unfortunately cannot be here, but it is a great privilege for me to be here to hear those speeches, which revealed just how much care, affection and thought my hon. Friends the Members for Waveney (Peter Aldous) and for Newbury (Richard Benyon) have put into the issues of […]
Rory appears before the Environmental Audit Committee to answer questions on Flooding: Cooperation Across Government on 13 April 2016.
Barry Sheerman: What steps she is taking to meet the recycling targets in the EU circular economy package. Rory: There are two separate questions here. The EU circular economy package is still under negotiation, but on recycling rates we are doing well, as the hon. Gentleman knows. We have gone from 12.5% recycling in 2001 […]
Rory, in his capacity as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, answered questions in the House of Commons today. Watch it here:
Rory, in his capacity as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Affairs, and Oliver Letwin MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, appear before the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee on 3 February 2016 to answer questions on air quality.
Rory, in his capacity as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, appeared alongside Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Energy and Climate Change, Tom Bastin, Head of the European Union and International Energy Efficiency Team, and Robert Hitchen, Head of the Environment Team, European Union Strategy, […]
On Tuesday 10th of November, Rory, as Environment Minister responded to a parliamentary debate on hedgehogs, believed to be the first substantial parliamentary consideration of this prickly subject since 1566. The debate was introduced by Oliver Colvile MP, a self-proclaimed “hedgehog champion” keen to draw attention to the decline in hedgehog numbers, and predation by […]